Image Generation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Image Generation went from 780 papers in 2023 to 1,721 in 2026, roughly 2.2x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Image Generation work: 2,262 papers from 2023 to 2026, 44% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Deep learning · generative models and autoencoders: papers tagged with both rose from 35 in 2023 to 150 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Computer Vision, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Video Understanding, is up 2.6x versus 2.2x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{bispectrum}$: Selective $G$-Bispectra Made Practical
• ICML 2026Klein Hyperbolic Metric Learning
• ICLR 2026A Bayesian Nonparametric Framework for Private, Fair, and Balanced Tabular Data Synthesis
• CVPR 2026Adaptive Learned Image Compression with Graph Neural Networks
• NeurIPS 2025Alchemist: Turning Public Text-to-Image Data into Generative Gold
• ICML 2025BiMark: Unbiased Multilayer Watermarking for Large Language Models
• ICLR 2025Accelerating Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation with Training-free Speculative Jacobi Decoding
• CVPR 2025A Polarization-Aided Transformer for Image Deblurring via Motion Vector Decomposition
• NeurIPS 2024Einsum Benchmark: Enabling the Development of Next-Generation Tensor Execution Engines
• ICML 2024Adaptive Feature Selection for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Mitigating Semantic Noise Sensitivity
• ICLR 2024AutomaTikZ: Text-Guided Synthesis of Scientific Vector Graphics with TikZ
• CVPR 2024DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch
• NeurIPS 20234D Panoptic Scene Graph Generation
• ICML 2023Architecture-Agnostic Masked Image Modeling -- From ViT back to CNN
• ICLR 2023Accurate Image Restoration with Attention Retractable Transformer
• CVPR 20233D GAN Inversion With Facial Symmetry Prior
• NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse
• ICML 2026Noisy-Channel Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
• ICLR 2026All Patches Matter, More Patches Better: Enhance AI-Generated Image Detection via Panoptic Patch Learning
• CVPR 2026AIMDepth Asymmetric Image-Event Mamba for Monocular Depth Estimation

All Image Generation papers

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101. ICLR 2026Event-T2M: Event-level Conditioning for Complex Text-to-Motion Synthesis
102. ICLR 2026Everything in Its Place: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence of Text-to-Image Models
103. ICLR 2026Evolutionary Caching to Accelerate Your Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Model
104. ICLR 2026Evolving Graph Structured Programs for Circuit Generation with Large Language Models
105. ICLR 2026Exploring Diverse Generation Paths via Inference-time Stiefel Activation Steering
106. ICLR 2026FACM: Flow-Anchored Consistency Models
107. ICLR 2026Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals
108. ICLR 2026FakeXplain: AI-Generated Image Detection via Human-Aligned Grounded Reasoning
109. ICLR 2026FAST‑DIPS: Adjoint‑Free Analytic Steps and Hard‑Constrained Likelihood Correction for Diffusion‑Prior Inverse Problems
110. ICLR 2026Fastcar: Cache Attentive Replay for Fast Auto-Regressive Video Generation on the Edge
111. ICLR 2026Flow Along the $K$-Amplitude for Generative Modeling
112. ICLR 2026Flow Caching for Autoregressive Video Generation
113. ICLR 2026FlowAlign: Trajectory-Regularized, Inversion-Free Flow-based Image Editing
114. ICLR 2026FlowBind: Efficient Any-to-Any Generation with Bidirectional Flows
115. ICLR 2026FLUX-Reason-6M & PRISM-Bench: A Million-Scale Text-to-Image Reasoning Dataset and Comprehensive Benchmark
116. ICLR 2026Follow-Your-Preference: Towards Preference-Aligned Image Inpainting
117. ICLR 2026Free Lunch for Stabilizing Rectified Flow Inversion
118. ICLR 2026From Broad Exploration to Stable Synthesis: Entropy-Guided Optimization for Autoregressive Image Generation
119. ICLR 2026From Prediction to Perfection: Introducing Refinement to Autoregressive Image Generation
120. ICLR 2026FS-DFM: Fast and Accurate Long Text Generation with Few-Step Diffusion Language Models
121. ICLR 2026FullPart: Generating each 3D Part at Full Resolution
122. ICLR 2026Functional MRI Time Series Generation via Wavelet-Based Image Transform and Spectral Flow Matching for Brain Disorder Identification
123. ICLR 2026FutureFill: Fast Generation from Convolutional Sequence Models
124. ICLR 2026Generalizable Heuristic Generation Through LLMs with Meta-Optimization
125. ICLR 2026Generate Any Scene: Scene Graph Driven Data Synthesis for Visual Generation Training
126. ICLR 2026Generation then Reconstruction: Accelerating Masked Autoregressive Models via Two-Stage Sampling
127. ICLR 2026Generative Human Geometry Distribution
128. ICLR 2026GeoDiv: Framework for Measuring Geographical Diversity in Text-to-Image Models
129. ICLR 2026Geometric Image Editing via Effects-Sensitive In-Context Inpainting with Diffusion Transformers
130. ICLR 2026GeomMotif: A Benchmark for Arbitrary Geometric Preservation in Protein Generation
131. ICLR 2026Gogo: Group-wise granularity-ordered codec for stable and efficient speech generation
132. ICLR 2026Group Critical-token Policy Optimization for Autoregressive Image Generation
133. ICLR 2026Guidance Matters: Rethinking the Evaluation Pitfall for Text-to-Image Generation
134. ICLR 2026Guidance Watermarking for Diffusion Models
135. ICLR 2026Gumbel Distillation for Parallel Text Generation
136. ICLR 2026HGNet: Scalable Foundation Model for Automated Knowledge Graph Generation from Scientific Literature
137. ICLR 2026HOG-Diff: Higher-Order Guided Diffusion for Graph Generation
138. ICLR 2026Hot PATE: Private Aggregation of Distributions for Diverse Tasks
139. ICLR 2026Hyperspherical Latents Improve Continuous-Token Autoregressive Generation
140. ICLR 2026I-DRUID: Layout to image generation via instance-disentangled representation and unpaired data
141. ICLR 2026IC-Custom: Diverse Image Customization via In-Context Learning
142. ICLR 2026iLLaVA: An Image is Worth Fewer Than 1/3 Input Tokens in Large Multimodal Models
143. ICLR 2026Image Can Bring Your Memory Back: A Novel Multi-Modal Guided Attack against Image Generation Model Unlearning
144. ICLR 2026Image Quality Assessment for Embodied AI
145. ICLR 2026ImageDoctor: Diagnosing Text-to-Image Generation via Grounded Image Reasoning
146. ICLR 2026ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World Tasks
147. ICLR 2026ImageRAG: Dynamic Image Retrieval for Reference-Guided Image Generation
148. ICLR 2026Implicit Inversion turns CLIP into a Decoder
149. ICLR 2026Improving Classifier-Free Guidance in Masked Diffusion: Low-Dim Theoretical Insights with High-Dim Impact
150. ICLR 2026Improving Text-guided CAD Prototyping via Modality-Specific Tokenization

FAQ

How many Image Generation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

5,184 in total: 780 in 2023, 1,216 in 2024, 1,467 in 2025, 1,721 in 2026.

How many Image Generation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 453 Image Generation papers, versus 430 the year before.

How many Image Generation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 349 Image Generation papers, versus 278 the year before.

How many Image Generation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 230 Image Generation papers, versus 147 the year before.

How many Image Generation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 689 Image Generation papers, versus 612 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Image Generation papers?

CVPR, with 2,262 papers from 2023 to 2026.